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| For today's article, we've decided to devote it to baking one thing in particular - Watermelon-shaped Cake Pops! But there are other types of cake pops you can make too. What a variety! |
Hey
there everyone, Lizzy the Lizard here and I'm in the kitchen with my
younger sister, Lily. Did I mention that she would make a great chef
someday? She watches cooking shows and reads recipe books. Lily is
always asking if we could bake something, like cupcakes. Well today she
plans on making a batch of watermelon-shaped cake pops with mom. It
sounds delicious, can't wait to try them! I decided to ask why she
wanted to bake today. "I'm always in a baking mood," she replied, "I
just love to bake!" I decided to ask her what ingredients were needed.
"You have to have 1 box of white cake mix (Betty Rocker super moist
preferred, or you could make your own . . . but that's a whole other
process!), 1/4 teaspoon of pink paste food coloring, 3/4 cup of vanilla
frosting, 3/4 cup of mini semisweet chocolate chips, 32 lollipop
sticks, 1 bag of candy melts, 1 large block white plastic foam, 1 bag
(16 oz) of green candy melts, and 1 cup of light green candy melts,"
Lily the lizard said. "Hey do you mind teaching our readers how to make
these delicious treats?" I asked her. "Well you start off by heating the
overnight to 350 degrees and spraying a 13 by 9 inch pan with cooking
spray. Make and bake the cake mix and use water, oil, and egg whites
while adding pink paste food color. Then let the cake cool completely,"
said Lily. I watched as mom and Lily baked a cake an then laid it down
on the counter to cool off. As the cake was chilling, Lily took a line
cookie sheet with waxed paper and laid it down on another part of the
counter. She checked the cake and then crumbled it up in a large bowl.
"Why did you do that?" I asked, confused. "That's how you make the cake
pops." Lily explained. She added frosting and the chocolate chips into
the mix and stirred it up. "Here's a fun part to me!" she exclaimed.
"You take some of the mix and you shape it into a ball or an oval. You
should be able to get at least 32 of them. Then you place them carefully
on the cookie sheet and freeze them until their firm by putting them in
the freezer. Once firm, you transfer the balls into the refrigerator."
Lily, mom, and I decided to watch a movie while we waited for the pops
to become firm. "Here's were it gets harder to explain," said Lily, "I
think mom can explain it better." My Mom was happy to explain (she was
also pretty excited to be quoted for the newspaper too). "You remove the
cake balls from the fridge," she told us. "Then dip the tip of one
lollipop stick into the melted white candy and insert it into one cake
ball, no more than halfway in. Then you dip each cake ball into the
melted white candy and cover it. After that, you poke the other end of
the stick into the foam block but we just used an empty shoe-box and
poked holes into it. Do it with all of the other cake balls. Then let
them sit in the fridge until their dry meaning until the candy melt has
hardened. After that, dip the cake balls in the green candy melt and
cover it all up. Then set it back in the fridge." I watched as Lily took
a lollipop stick and dipped one of the ends in the white chocolate. I
saw her take out one of the cake balls and plunge the stick into it but
not all the way. Then she twirled the cake ball around carefully in the
bowl of white candy melts. Lily walked over to the fridge and put the
other end of the stick into a hole on the top of a box for the cake pop
to stand. "Later, after its been dipped in green and dried, we use a
toothpick and decorate the cake balls with the light green candy to make
it look like a watermelons. You know watermelons need some stripes!"
Lily said, excitedly. After the cake pops were done, we each took one
and are it. "Wow these are delicious!" I exclaimed. "And it really looks
like you bit into a watermelon that has seeds, how cool. "Well that's
it for now folks, tune in next time . . . to see me all wrapped . . . in
duck tape? Bye, I've got to get another one of these cake pops, it's
delicious!
Written by: Lizzy Lizard
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan, Joy Hammond and Mr. Smiley
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